Selbstbestimmt in Gottes Willen

Drawing from Edmund Husserl´s ethical reflections the study thematizes a phenomenologically deepened understanding of moral autonomy and allows a critique of arbitrary autonomy. The best possible life of reason and the categorical imperative not only requires a cultivated heart but it is also continuously connected to reflection, critique and renewal of traditionally sedimented means and values of the life-world. In the face of existential threats like irrationality, sin and death personal individuality is realized by means of the absolute ought. Instead of social isolation vocational communitization and the alignment with the idea of God fulfil the truth of will of the personal within her world-life.